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SkyDrive Pro Standalone for Mac, Please?

Mac Office 365 users have been requesting a SkyDrive Pro syncing client, to improve the Office for Mac and SharePoint Online experience. While Microsoft is on a roll with listening-and-doing, will this be addressed? Is there something for Mac in the pipeline?

[UPDATE 4-Sept] Mark Kashsman, Senior Product Manager for the SharePoint team at Microsoft, responded with this comment about SkyDrive Pro support for Mac.

Our current Mac support for SharePoint Online and SkyDrive Pro (SDP) is via the Web browser, Safari. Specific to SDP, you can drag/drop from the desktop into Web SDP (try it if you haven’t yet). I know this is not what you are asking. We are actively planning next phases of SDP development for Web, apps and sync clients – with focus on addressing Mac in the mix of innovation. You’ll see much Mac focus from MSFT. Hang tight and thanks for the comment.

Our current Mac support for SharePoint Online and SkyDrive Pro (SDP) is via the Web browser, Safari. Specific to… http://t.co/nFLwkehsHT

Thank you Mark, for letting us know that a Mac SDP sync client is in the works.

Come to think of it, has anyone heard anything about the next Office for Mac? 2014? Will it have improved integration with SkyDrive and SharePoint (on-prem and online), like we saw with Office 2013? Will it include a SkyDrive Pro standalone client for syncing?

Here’s some posts that make some guesses and fuel some rumours about Office for Mac 2014.